Year 11 QCE Assessment Booklet 2019

SENIOR SCHOOL ASSESSMENT (QCE) POLICY STATEMENT OF INTENT This new QCE Senior School Assessment Policy details procedures to be followed for: 1. Tests/Examinations 2. Alternative Assessment tasks other than examinations 3. Late and non-submission of assessment items 4. Academic Integrity 5. Students with documented learning difficulties. RELEVANT LEGISLATION AND POLICY QCE and QCIA policy and procedures handbook 2019 covering: • Late and non-submission of student responses to assessment instruments in General and Applied subjects • Access Arrangements and Reasonable Adjustments (AARA) in General and Applied Subjects • Academic Integrity • Assessment Requirements PRINCIPLES FOR ASSESSMENT TASKS The following principles will inform Somerset College policy: 1. Evidence about student achievement will be gathered in a continuous process throughout the course of the teaching, learning and assessment program. 2. Expectations of assessment instruments and due dates will be made clear to teachers, students and their parents/guardians. 3. Procedures will be enacted consistently across subjects within the school in a fair and equitable manner. 4. Processes will be put in place by the College to intervene in order to avoid cases of late and non- submission. Judgments of student responses will only be made: 1. Where there is student work to match with assessment standards and Instrument-specific Marking Guides (ISMG’s) 2. Using assessment standards and ISMG’s 3. Based on evidence available on or before the due date In cases of non-submission of student responses to assessment instruments, standards are not awarded when there is no evidence.

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